Gunpowder and Satin ; BW

2.8

NATASHAS POV

"Doctor." I helped the well respected man to his feet, seeing his eyes were back to their normal color and not a dazed look like they were before.

"Loki's scepter, the energy... the tesseract can't fight. You can't protect against yourself." He held his head.

I shook my head, "It's okay, Doctor. You didn't know what you were doing."

"Well, actually, I think I did. I built in a safety to cut the power source."

"Loki's scepter." I said when the realization dawned on me.

"It might be able to close the portal." Selvig said, looking over the edge of the balcony, "and I'm looking right at it."

TONYS POV

"Stark, you hearing me? We have a missile headed straight for the city." Fury said.

"How long?" I asked shooting a few aliens climbing a building.

"3 minutes at best. Stay low and wipe out the missile."

"Jarvis, put everything you got into the thrusters."

"I just did, sir."

I turned down another street, firing missiles at every Chitauri I could.

"I can close it! Can anybody hear me? I can shut the portal down!" Natasha grunted through the coms.

"Do it!" Cap ordered.

"No, wait!" I said, seeing the nuke whiz by.

"Stark, these things are still coming." Y/n panted.

"I got a nuke coming in, going to blow in less than a minute. And I know just where to put it." I smirked getting under the nuke and steering it away from the city.

"Stark... you know that's a one way trip." Cap said lightly.

"Sir, shall I call miss Potts?"

I shrugged, "Might as well."

YOUR POV

All of us on the ground let out a collective sigh of relief when Tony flew up into the portal with the nuke.

"Come on, Stark." I mumbled, seeing no sign of him coming back down.

After a beat, Cap sighed, "Close it.." he told Widow.

The portal become smaller, almost closed when Stark fell through the tiny hole until the portal closed for good.

"Son of a gun." Cap chuckled.

"He's not slowing down." Thor swung his hammer around, flying up. Hulk came out of nowhere, grabbing Stark and crashing to the ground.

We all rushed over to him. I ripped off the gold painted part of his mask, Tony unmoving.

"Is he-"

Hulk roared, startling Tony awake as he sat up gasping.

"What the hell? What just happened? Please tell me nobody kissed me." Tony panicked, his doe brown eyes were wide with shock.

"We won." I smiled at Tony, patting his iron shoulder.

"Alright. Hey. Alright. Good job, guys. Let's just not come in tomorrow. Let's just take a day. Have you ever tried shawarma? There's a shawarma joint about two blocks from here. I don't know what it is, but I wanna try it." Tony blew out a breath, laying back down on the road.

Thor looked back up at Stark tower, "we aren't finished yet."

"And then shawarma after." Tony stood up, dusting off his suit.